[wxruby-users] TaskBarIcon in OS X

[Alex Fenton]

David Grandinetti wrote:
> I don't know if this is a issue better taken up with the wxWidgets
> developers, but you may consider (even though the Apple HIG guidelines
> frown on it) that developers will want to be able to put icons on the
> right side of the menu bar.
>   
It's something that would be implemented in wxWidgets. It's been 
discussed before:
http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wx-dev/msg40258.html

but it seems to be ruled out by one of the wxWidgets OS X lead devs:
http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wx-dev/msg40273.html

FWIW, I agree with that reasoning.

If you were really certain that a menu bar icon was what you wanted, you 
might be able to create one using Ruby Cocoa. From that htread, looks 
like the relevant class is NSStatusBarItem.

cheers
alex